Posts connected by the five-ws tag.
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Roughly 80% of the software I produce now starts as a prompt, not a keystroke. Mapped onto the Quest Engine, that means agents have moved into the Drive (the How) and are eating into the four W's. What is left for me is the Why, the context still trapped in people's heads, and the work of running a fleet of agents predictably.
Why is the directive and How is the action, which leaves out the entire middle. Who, What, When, and Where are the locating step: four separate questions, each with its own failure mode, that tell you where you are standing before you move. Splitting them out of the How is what makes the whole model work.
A high-level map of Why, the four Ws, and How, plus the two properties that make them work: the structure is self-referencing (every step contains the whole shape) and it is a loop (the end of one cycle issues the start of the next). Which also means half the vocabulary is relative to wherever you are currently standing.
Why is not a question, it is the Primary Directive, and it stands alone above the other two steps. What it is, why the general human directive is Explore/Play/Joy, how the specific human directive nests inside the general authentic one, and why Why is answered first and audited last.